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HOW TOLAN BUILDS VOICE-FIRST AI WITH GPT-5.1
"Her (2013) is officially a documentary now."
Explain Like I'm Normal
OpenAI showcased how Tolan uses the upcoming GPT-5.1 architecture to eliminate the 'awkward silence' in AI conversations. The system uses real-time context reconstruction and persistent memory to simulate a human-like personality that responds instantly to voice input.
ALSO TODAY
Netomi’s lessons for scaling agentic systems into the enterprise
Sam Altman accidentally leaked the roadmap while we were busy making memes.
Gemma 4 Unified is coming
Google's leaked 'transformer-less' vision tower has the local LLM guys sweating bullets.
AI BREAKTHROUGHS
See all →ToolGate: Token-Efficient Pre-Call Control for Tool-Augmented Vision-Language Agents
Your agent needs a secretary because it can't stop clicking random tools.
Open R1: Update #2
Reasoning models are being democratized while you're still debugging print statements.
A semantic tokenization scheme where token geometry reflects semantic relationships [R]
Why wait for the weights to learn meaning when you can hardcode it into the tokens?
AI DRAMA
See all →Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight
When the 'exclusive partner' starts seeing other people and building their own house.
California’s university system went all in on AI, now it's tearing itself apart
Berkeley professors discover that 'AI for all' mostly means 'paperwork for us.'
Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial recognition feature
Your doorbell is snitching on the neighbors and they finally noticed.
WEIRD TOOLS
See all →Build awesome datasets for video generation
Sora vibes for everyone once you actually clean your data.
From Chunks to Blocks: Accelerating Uploads and Downloads on the Hub
Pipes finally getting wider so you can stop staring at your terminal.
TorchDAE: Implicit DAE Solvers with Index Reduction and Adjoint Sensitivity [P]
Physics-informed ML just got a significant upgrade for differential algebraic equations.
STARTUP GRAVEYARD
See all →EXPLAIN LIKE I'M NORMAL
See all →Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation
The 'read but don't repeat' era of the internet has entered the chat.
Large AI Models in Dental Healthcare: From General-Purpose Systems to Domain-Specific Foundation Models
Your next root canal might be peer-reviewed by an LLM trained on 3 billion smiles.
Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features, rules UK
The UK just told Google it can't eat your blog for free without permission.
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